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SAVINGS BANK. No.- 532,505. Patented Jan. 15, 1895.

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PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS J. W". WALL, OF ST. LOUIS,.MISSOURI.

SAVINGS-BANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Lett-ers Patent N0. 532,505, dated hilary15, 1895.

Application tiled .Tuly 2, 1894. Serial No. 516,269. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS J. rW. WALL, a citizen of theUnited'statesesiding in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Savings-Banks, ofwhich the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as willenable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming partof this specification.

The object of my invention is to construct a savings bank or box fromwhich it is impossible to 'abstract the money contained therein,

except the box be unlocked or broken. 'v

To this end my invention generally stated consists in a savings bank orbox provided with a removable top having a suitable .coinslot, a chuteand a pivoted guard, whereby' it is impossible to abstract the moneyfrom the safe. n

I' design to have the savings box kept at the home or place of businessof bank depositors, and the keys of the boxes retained by the officialsof the bank, so thatdepositors cannot gain access to the interior of thebox without taking it to the officials of the bank. The box is to betaken to the bank when filled, andthe contents thereof deposited lin thebank to the credit of the depositor.

My invention will be best understood by referring to the accompanyingdrawings, making part of this specification, in Which- Figure 1 is afront' elevation, partlyin sec! tion, of asavings bank or box, providedwith my improvements. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same on the planeof the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view of a detail, showing thepivoted guard and chute, the same being takenon'the plane of the lineS-Sof Fig. 2.

The same marks of reference indicate the same parts throughout theseveral views.

1 is a stout box of iron or other suitable material. The front side 5thereof is preferably made separate and its edges 6 are turned over asshown by full and dotted lines in Fig. 2. The bottom and sides 7 of thebox are preferably made Of one piece of metal and riveted or otherwisepermanently fastened to the turned-over edges 6 of the front 5. The topof the box is covered by a plate 8, which may be removed from the box.One

`for the box.

edge of the top 8 takesunder the turned-over edge 6A at the top of thebox, and a 1ip;9 at the rear side of the top 8 comes against the upperedge of the rear side7 of the box. The top is provided with a lock 10 onits under side, the key-barrel 11 of the lock projecting upon theoutside of the top. The lock has a bolt 12 which engages with a shoulder18 on the rear side 7 near the top of the box. The bolt 12 holds the topsecurely to the box and when the bolt is withdrawn from the shoulder13,4 the top may be lifted off the box, and access Ahad to the interiorthereof. The top is also provided with short posts 14., into recesses inwhich, the ends of a bent rod 15 may be sprung to provide a suitablehandle The under side of the top has secured to it a chute 16,consisting of a perforated inclined plate and side pieces 17. The fourthor open side of the chute is provided with a pivoted guard 18 swung upona rod' 19 supported by the side pieces 17. The pivoted guard isfurnished with a spring 20, one edge of which is secured to a lug 2l'onthe inclined perforated plate, and the other end thereof fastened to oneof the side pieces 17, the said spring helping to hold rthe'guard awayfrom the chute at its upper part. Between the chute and the normalposition of the pivoted guard is a slot 22 out in' the top 8 of the box,into which slot the coin is deposited. The chute 16 at its lower end maybefashioned into fingers 23, andthe pivoted guard 18 may also befashioned into fingers 24 at its lower end which come between theingers23'of the chute. The normal position of the pivoted guard is suchthat the fingers of the pivoted guard and chute overlap or interlock,sor that the coin which is already, deposited in the box cannot be madeto pass up the chute and out the slot by inverting the box. i y t Thepivoted guard at itsupper endl is provided with a slightly curvedplate25 adapted to swing under and close the slot 22, when the lingers at thelower end of the pivoted guard have moved away from the fingers 24. atthe lower end of the chute, but normally the plate y25 uncovers the slot22.

The operation ofthe device is as follows; A coin being deposited in theslot 22 passes through the same down the chute 16. When IOO 5 lower endof the chute, thereby permitting the coin to deposit itself in the box.i At the time the coin opens the lower end ot' the chute, the slot 22 isclosed by the plate 25. Should any one attempt to open the ngers at thelower end of the chute, so as to abstract the coin from the box, theplate 25 immediatelycovers the slot, so that one point is alwaysguarded,"

and there is never a clear open passage from the interior of the boxthrough the slot. arrangement is such however, as not to inter ferewiththe introduction of coin into the box, but only to prevent the coin frombeing abstracted from thebox by way of` the slot.

Having fully set forth-my inventionfwhat I desire to claimand secure byLetters Patent of the UnitedStates is 1 l. A money bank or box havingacoin-slot, a fixed chute beneath said slot extendinginto the box andprovided with fingers at its lower end, and a pivotedslot-guard carryingon `its lower end a plate provided-With fingers which normally overlapthe fingers of the chute, said The guard normally clear of the slot, butadapted to close such slot when the lin gers at the lower end of thechute and those of the finger plate are separated from each other.

2. A money bank or box having a coin-slot, a fixed inclined chutebeneath said slot extending into the box and provided with iingers atits lower end, a pivoted guard adapted to close such slot and formingone side of the chute, aspring connected with such guard and 4adapted tohold the same normally away from said slot, and a plate carried by saidguard, and `provided withifingers at its lower end which normallyoverlap the fingers of the chute, said guard adapted to" close such slotwhen the fingers at the lower end of the chute and those 0E the lingerplate are separated from eachotherrt t; .t

. `Intestiinonytwhereoftl ,have hereunto set my hand and affixedinyseal, this 27th day of June, 1,894, inthe presence of the twosubscribing witnesses.

y y i i L. J. W.

Witnesses:

WALTER B. JOHNSTON, W. W. RAMSAY.

WALL [L. s]

